Just wanted to thank you for your post regarding Firestarter Vodka. Your story is one that we have both heard many times before and (unfortunately) have had to painfully deal with.

The concept of the fire extinguisher has been a great success across the board. The development from the manufacturer has been frustrating at best. The bottle that you showed in your post was the last of its kind. Pulling the pin and lifting the lever was all good in concept. However the manufacturer simply couldn’t master it so that it was both consumer friendly and 100% fool proof. Live and learn.

The next generation bottles virtually look identical. The main variation is that the end of the pour spout is a simple black twist off cap. There is now a built-in speed pour which also makes it bartender friendly.

The vodka itself won gold at the 2011 Russian Spirits Awards. The 5 times platinum filtered vodka is known as “Spicul De Aur” as it is packaged in Russia and Ukraine. The rest of the world will know that vodka as Firestarter.

We are enjoying a tremendous rush of growth here in the states. 40+ states now carry us, with an additional 6 countries now firing things up.

Just found your site and had to say that I love your writing voice. For some reason I didn’t realized you went to SVSU for graphic design. My sister is going through their GD program right now and is loving it.

I went to download your portfolio and there was a weird error. I’d love to see your work.

-Krystle

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Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:55:11 +0000http://bowtienick.wordpress.com/?p=549#comment-479Nick, this is Ben, Chris Schanz’s brother and I can make a pretty good Mojito. You need to buy the cheap rum. They do not have a strong taste, which will ruin the overall flavor of the Mojito. My method is this, make them in small rocks glasses. Use sugar in the raw if you can find it. When you think you have put enough sugar in add another teaspoon. Now, spash some club soda on there. Not tonic water, club soda. Cut yourself some mint sprigs and put them in the glass, now add a little more. Muddle the heck out of them with a pestel. Now add some limes and muddle them too. Use about 1/2 of a medium sized lime. Once you have that concoction done add some ice, 4-5 cubes will be fine. Now, give yourself about 2-2 1/2 “fingers” of rum and top off with some club soda. Now pour that into another glass that is the same size and enjoy. It is an art, but one worth learning. Enjoy.!!
]]>Comment on On New Toys by Cassiehttps://bowtienick.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/on-new-toys/#comment-478
Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:19:53 +0000http://bowtienick.wordpress.com/?p=514#comment-478I always forget you have a blog! Until, I’m reminded by Christies. Any how, I fought the urge to brag, really I did. But I just purchased (3 days ago) via the Apple Store website, a new MacBook (!?!) and I went a little nuts, I upped the memory to 4GB and the Hardrive to 360 GB. I think I peed a little just typing that…
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Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:21:25 +0000http://bowtienick.wordpress.com/?p=514#comment-477Wow, that’s small……….
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Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:39:33 +0000http://bowtienick.wordpress.com/?p=478#comment-204Ahh, I follow it now. I guess a quick skimming through the paragraph instead of fully taking in all grammatical aspects of it leads one to misinterpret the structure of the sentence and its context.

My bad.

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Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:24:05 +0000http://bowtienick.wordpress.com/?p=478#comment-86Post edited for clarity. I can see why you’d think I meant that, but no, it wasn’t the case. I meant that, coming from listening to Clarity to listening to Bleed American was quite a shift stylistically and took some getting used to.

Still, I thank you for pointing out my erroneous phrasing. At times, words make more sense in my head than they do “on paper.”